Correspondence dated 7 March 1955

Summary

An item from the surviving correspondence of William John Sands.

Historical context

This item forms part of the surviving William John Sands correspondence and is dated 7 March 1955. It is preserved in the William John Sands Family Archive as evidence of Sands’s professional work and relationships. The accompanying transcript was produced by machine OCR and should be checked against the original scan before being treated as a definitive reading.

Catalogue description

Original correspondence scan imported from the Sands and Ferguson family archive. Source file: 19550307a.jpg.

Machine transcript — unreviewed

+, The- transmission is wonderful in that it will nOt cause the Wary Feifirson Woldings So. We have applied for patents covering a number of so things such as the weight of the driver on the seat, or the opening of the door, or something of that kind. The | opening of the door isn't so good because one sometimes ~ leaves the driver's door open, What we are after with our hydraulic transmission is, of course, safety and so that the car will not creep.: car to creep when the engine is reasonably adjusted for slow running. However, one has other things to think about such as lifting the bonnet and working on the carburetter. If one speeded up the engine with the car in position one would be out of luck. As things now look we shall have no low gear whatever nor any gearbox but just a forward position, a neutral position and a reverse position, worked by a little lever on the dashboard about the size of a lead pencil. Now if we can make the engine switch off automatically as the driver gets out of the seat, we will ge quite safe put there would then be the problem of working on the engine and tuning it up. We have, therefore, provided that when the lever for the gear is in the neutral position the switch will not go off automatically. In addition we would keep an ordinary switch on the dashboard just for convenience, in case one wanted to switch off whilst still remaining seated in the car, to look at the scenery for example. This is just a hurried note as I go off. Please do think it over and if you have any brain-waves write to me at your convenience, I shall be home towards the end of the week. Yours sincerely, Faty Haute